Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.

Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

A smile is a curve that can straighten out a lot of problems.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

Everything is possible in this life.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!

From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

Henman and Coria have met three times in the past and they've won one apiece.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.